A Multimedia Offline Cell Phone System For English Language Learning

Among mobile computing devices, cell phones are the most wide spread devices and are available in the hands ofalmost every university student. Other than being portable phones, many are equipped with functionalities including internetaccess, mp3/mp4 player, digital camera video recorder etc. and can run multimedia content. These features make themattractive as educational tools as well. In this paper we present an offline Flash-based prototype system for English languagelearning using cell phones. The system consists of ten Learning Objects (LO) constructed using the multimedia approach.Initial testing demonstrated the efficiency of the system and it was extremely well received by students.